Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act

Kennewick Man in court

Picking bones

The US government decides Kennewick Man is a Native American—after first violating sacred Native American beliefs.

Curse of the K-Man

Is the Northwest's oldest resident getting fed up with his tormentors?

Boneheaded

Why test K-Man's DNA if the tests are pointless?

Gnawing on the bones

Now the scientists turn intransigent in the battle over Kennewick man.

K-Man

How a new creation myth for the Americas is emerging from a political, religious, and scientific controversy over old bones.

Bones of Contention

How the discovery of a 9,000-year-old skeleton on the Columbia River may sink the land-bridge theory of North American settlement and has pitted science against Native American rights.